From drifkind@acm.deleteme.org Sat Mar 4 04:26:34 2000 Xref: news.spc.edu alt.folklore.computers:234387 alt.sys.pdp10:7363 Path: news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-out.uswest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!drifkind From: drifkind@acm.deleteme.org (David Rifkind) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Disk array blinkenlights (was Re: Anybody want an O26 keypunch?) References: <88pf5o$hgq@netaxs.com> <89b2p3$96e$1@bob.news.rcn.net> <38B9E86F.F32B7A3C@bellatlantic.net> <1b9005rit3.fsf@viper.cs.nmsu.edu> <38bc0a43_1@news.wizvax.net> <89maag$iqf$1@unlnews.unl.edu> <38BEC521.188FCC18@earthlink.net> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Win32) Lines: 32 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:27:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.161.145.227 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 952118857 216.161.145.227 (Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:27:37 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:27:37 CST On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 19:55:23 GMT, jchausler wrote: > > >Joshua Hesse wrote: > >> The problem was that the air coming into the cube would come in right >> through the optical drive slot. (not enough vent holes) >> Dust is bad for MO drives. Having all the dust-laden air come in through >> that slot didn't help any. The fan was turned around later, of course. >> >> -Josh > >I don't believe its good for any removable disk drive. I've had lotsof problems >with floppies due to this very situation. I wish they >would build a separate "air-tight" box around the floppy drive(s) >so the air being sucked into the box wouldn't come through the >disk opening. It's even worse in an "industrial" environment. >I normally keep a "sacrificial" floppy available to put in the >drive and format before using the floppy I want to access/write. >This usually cleans them enough. Over the phone, I always >have customers take a new blank floppy and format it, then >throw it away, before using the drive for real. I just had to blow about a year's worth of fluff out of my floppy drive to make it work. Roedy Green used to say that the inside of his computer looked like sheep had been nesting there. Mine looks like sheep have been using it as a crack house. -- "The privileged being which we call human is distinguished from other animals only by certain double-edged manifestations which in charity we can only call 'inhuman.'" -- Epiktistes